Buffing and polishing brush.



No. 865,098. Y PATENTED SEPT. 3, 19 07.

. B.N.GAUDRON.

BUFFING AND POLISHING BRUSH.

APPLICATION IILBD MAR. 30. 1907.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD N. GAUDRON, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO WILLIAM DIXON, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 30, 1907. Serial No. 365,580.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD N. GAI'JDRON, a citizen of the United States, residing in Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Buffing and Polishing Brushes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in buffing and polishing brushes and to the manufacture of the same. v

In the manufacture of bufing brushes as heretofore made the cotton tufts were threaded by hand into a concaved body having perforations in its circumference, which is a difficult and time-consuming operation, especially when buffing brushes of greater than theordinary widths have to be made.

The object of this invention is to make a buffing and polishing brush which can be manufactured with great facility in any width; and the invention con sists of a buffing and polishing brush which comprises a grooved center-piece provided with a central opening for being placed on a spindle, and one or more ringshaped buffing or polishing elements seated in the groove of the center-piece and consisting of twisted and looped strands of wire and a plurality of tufts held in the loops of said strands. The invention consists fur ther of certain details of construction which will be fully described hereinafter and finally pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a sectional top-view of the wire strands into which the tufts of cotton threads, bristles or wires are twisted, Fig. 2 is a side-view of Fig. 1, showing the tufts as held by the looped and twisted wire-strands, Fig. 3 is a side-elevation of the looped tufts as they are placed on the brush, Fig. 4 is a vertical transverse section on line 4, 4, Fig 3, Fig. 5 is a side-elevation of a finished bufling or polishing brush, and Fig. 6 is a vertical transverse section on line 6, 6, Fig. 5.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several figures.

Referring to the drawings, a, a are two strands of Wire whichform a memberprovided alternately with twisted portions or and looped portions a the looped portions receiving tufts b, of cotton threads, bristles or wires, according as the brush is intended as a buffing, polishing or scratch-brush. The tufts b are made of suitable width and are firmly held at their middle portions in the loops by the twisted portions of the wire memher which are formed by t ber of times between the of the required length is Patented Sept. 3,1907.

wisting said member a numloops. When a tufted body made up, as shown in Fig.

2, the tufts are doubled on themselves after which the looped and twisted wire-strands a are bent into circular form and connected at their ends, as shown in Fig. 3. One or more of the circular buffing or polishing elements thus formed are then placed in position in the circumferential groove d stock d which is provided groove forming a shoulder for working the circular grooved circumference of When the center-piece is of a wooden center-piece or at one side with an annular I d A tapering horn is used tufted members onto the the wooden center-piece d. provided with the required number of tufted members or elements, a closing ring d is placed in position on the shoulder 03 and glued or otherwise attached thereto so as to firmly retain the bufing or polishing e lements on the center-piece or stock. The center-piecev is provided with a central bore 0 by which it is placed on the operating shaft or spin dle.

Any width of brush, having from a single to any desired number of circular tufted elements, can be made,

as required for the work.

Tufts of bristles or wires of the required length may be placed in the loops of the strands of wires in the same manner as the tufts of cotton-fiber, so as to make polishing or scratch-brushes, as desired. Brushes made in the manner described can be manufactured without assembled in a quick and requiring skilled hands and uniform manner, so that the price of the same is considerably reduced as compared to the hand-threaded brushes heretofore made.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new V and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A brush comprising a to said stock and consisting stock and an element applied of a member having loops, and

tufts held in said loops, said member being twisted a number of times between sa the latter.

id loops to secure the tufts in twisted a number of times b tufts therein.

In testimony, that I claim etween the loops to secure the the foregoing as my invention,

I have signed my name in presence of two subscribing wit- IIBSSGS.

Witnesses PAUL Gonrnn, HENRY J. SUHnBInn.

EDWARD N. GAUDRON. 

